Kierkegaard and the matter of philosophy
Subtitle: A fractured dialectic
Series: Reframing the boundaries: Thinking the political
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781783482030
Description: Søren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly, a political ontology that is paradoxically at home in the context of twenty-first-century philosophical and political thought. Through a close consideration of his authorship in the context of nineteenth-century German idealism, Michael O'Neill Burns argues that Kierkegaard develops an ontology, anthropology and theory of the political that are outcomes of his critical appropriation of the philosophical projects of Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte. While starting out in the philosophical concerns of the nineteenth century, the book offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard that shows his relevance to philosophers and political theorists in the twenty-first century. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Notes on Sources; title: Introduction.; title: Notes; title: 1. Idealism Before Kierkegaard.; title: J. G. Fichte; title: F. W. J.. Schelling; title: G. W. F. Hegel; title: Contemporary Readings of Idealism; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: 2. Anxiety and Ontology.; title: The Concept of Irony; title: Actuality; title: An Introduction to Anxiety; title: The Instant; title: Freedom; title: Good and Evil; title: A Fractured Dialectic; title: Early Political Considerations; title: Notes; title: 3. Spirit and Society.; title: Despair; title: Faith and Paradox; title: Reflection and Consciousness; title: God and Transcendence; title: The Matter of Despair; title: From the Psychological to the Social; title: Notes; title: 4. Anxious Politics.; title: Previous Political Readings; title: The Present Age; title: The Age of Revolution; title: Political Ontology; title: Notes; title: 5. The Fractured Dialectic in Recent European Materialism.; title: Sartre's Materialism; title: Critique of Dialectical Reason; title: Kierkegaard and Sartre; title: Badiou and the Paradox of the Event; title: Badiou and Kierkegaard; title: Badiou's Theories of Subjectivity; title: Kierkegaard and Badiou; title: Kierkegaard contra Badiou; title: Notes; title: Conclusion: Kierkegaard and Twenty-First Century Philosophy. What is the Matter of God?; title: Love's Work